Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Mendix Embraces Multi-Faceted Approach to Containers
For some time now, a fair amount of momentum has been building around low-code approaches to building applications that both professional developers and gifted users could embrace as so-called “citizen developers.” As ...
SAP Approach to Microservices Comes into Focus
SAP is now starting to use of multiple types of containers to make external applications available as a microservice that provide access to live data. When it comes to containers, SAP currently ...
Survey: Container Use Maturing Rapidly
Most of the containers being employed today can be found in web applications that are, for the most part, stateless. But that’s only the beginning. A new survey of 648 IT professionals ...
CoreOS Deploys Operators for Kubernetes
While the Kubernetes container orchestration framework has generated a lot of enthusiasm, mastering it can be a significant challenge for IT organizations. To make Kubernetes more accessible, CoreOS has created Operators, a ...
ClusterHQ Eases Docker Data Management Headaches
One of the aggravating challenges developers and IT operations teams regularly face when working with Docker containers is the need to move data around lots of different instances of containers. Aiming to ...
Nimbix Marries Docker to HPC
One of the underappreciated benefits of containers is the degree to which they make IT infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms more available on demand. Case in point is Nimbix, a provider of a high-performance ...
CoreOS Taps Redspread Founders for Kubernetes
As an open-source container orchestration engine, Kubernetes enjoys broad industry support. The challenge is, it is a technology designed primarily for engineers by Google engineers. But since Google decided to make Kubernetes ...
Containers to Drive Wave of IT Infrastructure Upgrades
Containers are generally viewed as being the primary driver of a revolution in software that is transforming how applications are delivered. But it may very well turn out that the microservices architectures ...
Puppet Automates Managing Docker Container Images at Scale
Building a Docker container image is not especially difficult. But building and deploying hundreds or even thousands of Docker container images as new applications get developed or continuously upgraded is whole other ...
Red Hat Containerizes Mobile App Dev Tools
One of the things the IT community as a whole is just starting to appreciate is just how portable containers make just about everything and anything that runs on top of them ...
